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Title:	Racers and Racing
Notice:	As long as it's not NASCAR or F1 or Drags...
Moderator:	RHETT::BURDEN_D

Created:	Tue Aug 08 1995
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	391
Total number of notes:	4486

15.0. "PRO Rally Note - 1994 season" by TLE::FISHER (Kill your television) Tue Feb 01 1994 17:47

                         Polonez Rallysprint
                            Middletown, NY
                           January 29, 1994

After picking up a bunch of Northeast Divisional points from our run at
Maine Forest in December, my regular codriver Ted and I thought it might be
worth taking a shot at the Divisional championship.  Since there are so few
events in our division, we would need to run every dinky little rallysprint
there was, looking for points.  So that's why we left Nashua, New Hampshire
in the middle of a freezing rain storm pulling a 4000 lb trailer to
Middletown, New York so we could enter the dinky little rallysprint being
held there.

When we met the organizer at the hotel the night before the event, he
described the course as "a foot of water on top of very slippery ice".  The
course was a single stage 0.7 miles long which we would run as many times
as time allowed to get a total score.  The course, he said, was very twisty
with steep hills which we would constantly be going up and down.  It sounded
like the turbo motor would be a definite negative advantage! :-)

The day dawned overcast and right around the freezing mark on Saturday, and
we thought for sure there would be rivers on the course, but things must
have drained somewhat, because in most places there was only an inch or so
of slush on top of the ice.  Ted and I walked the course, and the organizer's
description was spot on otherwise.  The base was solid ice, every hill had
either a hairpin or a sharp 90 degree turn at its top and bottom, most of
the hills were quite steep, and some had side slopes as well!  We were
laughing pretty hard by the time we reached the finish, it looked like such
a crazy course.  At least the snow banks looked plenty firm enough to enforce
the suggested route!  Ted expressed a desire to co-enter, and the entry fee
was cheap (a measly $120), so I said sure.  Who knows, maybe we'd gain a bit
of an advantage from seeing the course twice as much.

The start was on a steep uphill, and although the organizers had spread
sand on it, it was still a tricky and slow climb to the top.  Once there, it
was a tight and nearly frictionless right-hander opening to perhaps a 50 foot
long straightaway before a big jump with an uphill landing.  Despite (perhaps
because of) the fact we could only get up to 15-20 mph for the jump, we came
crashing down hard on the nose of the car every time.  After the jump the
course climbed a bit more then headed down and to the right in a neat little
carousel that ended in a hairpin left into a long icy incline.  I won't bore
you with the details of the rest of the course, but it was similar in
character to the early part, except there were no other jumps.

It was all first and second gear stuff, and we never got going fast enough
for left-foot-braking to really be effective, so the handbrake got a lot
of use.  Both Ted and I have raced on ice before, and despite having some
difficulty controlling wheelspin, we were doing pretty well, though Ted was
doing better than I was. (and in my own car, the bastard! :-)  In general,
the 4-wheel-drive cars were doing better than the 2-wheel-drivers, and the
low-horsepower cars were doing better than the high-horse competitors.  The
team that was setting the fastest times was driving an old Subaru 4WD wagon
with about 70 HP!

Of the 10 entries, we were the only car that was double-entered, so where the
other cars waited 10-15 minutes between their runs, we had to run right
from the finish to the start, doing a Chinese fire drill every time, adjusting
seat position and harnesses, in order to do the same number of runs as
everyone else.  We were also pounding over that nasty jump twice as many
times as the rest of the field, and that concerned me somewhat.  In fact I
was considering the costs and benefits of slowing down over the jump while
riding shotgun for Ted when suddenly the engine went into full-boost,
full-throttle mode on him.

Fortunately he was able to complete his run on the course without hitting
anything besides the odd snowbank here and there, and he shut it down at
the finish line while I asked the control workers for an unscheduled service
break (they were very flexible in the format of this event).  They asked if
we could hold out for two more runs, and I said no.  I got out and opened
the hood right there at the timing control and felt around the intake
manifold for an air leak, which will cause the fuel injection to provide
more fuel and increase the engine speed.

As soon as I touched the manifold I knew what was wrong.  It moved several
inches in my hand!  The whole intake manifold had become completely detached
and was resting on the exhaust manifold.  The injectors were running full
blast and the port vacuum was pulling the fuel across the half inch or so
gap into the cylinders!

We pushed the car over to our service vehicle and started looking for some
bolts to replace the ones that seemed to have fallen out.  We didn't find
any that would work and were about to give up when I remembered that the
original bolts had probably been caught by the skid plate under the car.
I took a wheel off and fished around until I came out with all four bolts.
Good news!  I handed them to Ted, and he looked at them and gave me the bad
news:  They still had the aluminum threads from the head attached!  The
combination of the heavy manifold, the crash-landings off the jump, and
what seemed to be shorter-than-required manifold bolts had caused the bolts
to pull right out of the head, resulting in my first DNF due to mechanical
failure.

Oh well, a little work with a drill press and some Helicoils and we should
be back in business.  I'm sure glad this happened when it did and not at
a high-stakes, high-bucks national event... we'll be back!

Carl

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15.1		STARCH::HAGERMAN	Flames to /dev/null	`Tue Feb 01 1994 18:09`	5
	How does the timing on an event like this work? Are you expected to maintain say 30 mph over the length of the section, thus making it really a race to minimize points? Doug.
15.2	not a TSD event	STDBKR::Burden_d	Synchromesh gearboxes are for wimps	`Tue Feb 01 1994 18:18`	6
	No, this is a real speed event. Even though the speeds seem relatively low, they are fast enough to do real damage to cars, as Carl showed. They simply ad up all your times for all the stages and base the finishing positions on those. Dave
15.3		TLE::FISHER	Kill your television	`Wed Feb 02 1994 13:12`	5
	> they are fast enough to do real damage to cars, as Carl showed. Happy to demonstrate! :-) Carl
15.4		PROXY::J_EVANS		`Thu Feb 03 1994 15:09`	3
	Did anyone else see Carl's car in SPORTSCAR??? jim
15.5		STDBKR::Burden_d	Synchromesh gearboxes are for wimps	`Thu Feb 03 1994 16:39`	5
	No, mainly because I don't get it anymore... However, if you get the Roundel, keep an eye out for some pictures of our Isetta junk yard sometime in the future. Dave
15.6	It's hard to get a flattering picture of my car...	TLE::FISHER	Kill your television	`Thu Feb 03 1994 18:33`	12
	> Did anyone else see Carl's car in SPORTSCAR??? I did!!! Ain't it a BEAUT? (At least the side with the wrinkled fender was away from the camera... :-) Then of course right below us they have a picture of Bob Elliott's GTI shooting out a wicked rooster-tail, blurred background and all, made us look like we were having engine problems or something. I called my codriver Ted right up and told him if he sees anyone with a camera on the side of a stage to let me know so we can roost them too. :-) Carl
15.7		CRASHR::JILLY	COSROCS -- In Thrust We Trust	`Wed Apr 27 1994 14:11`	129
	Article 140 of rec.autos.sport.info: From: bradley@reed.edu (Ben Bradley) Subject: PRORALLY: Wild West Pro Rally Results Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 19:44:32 GMT Lines: 124 From Andy Schupack, public relations contact for the Michelin SCCA Pro Rally Championship: PORSCHE WINS SECOND STRAIGHT WASHINGTON RALLY AS TOP TWO FINISHERS DISQUALIFIED FOR SPEEDING ON TRANSIT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- April 24 -- When rally leader Paul Choiniere rolled his Audi Quattro on the Capitol Forest logging roads mid-way through Saturday's Wild West PRO Rally, the other top competitors started a bizarre chase for the top position - eventually claimed by the Porsche Carrera 4 team of Jeff Zwart, from Woody, Colo. and Martin Headland, from Calgary, Alberta. Zwart, who scored his second straight SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally series win having won the rally here last month, was declared the winner after the top two finishers were disqualified. "We have a hard and fast rule about drivers speeding on public roads between racing stages, and Carl Merrill's Ford Escort and Doug Shepherd's Eagle Talon - who had finished one-two - were caught by us on radar going over the posted speed limit," said Bob Grass, Wild West organizer. "If we are to continue to work with the forest service and the local communities, we must all obey the rules," he said. Of the 24 national rally starters, only 13 finished the grueling two-day event. Henry Joy, from Wilmette, IL, was second in his Mitsubishi Eclipse along with Canadian co-driver Brian Maxwell. Greg Lund and his wife and co-driver Lynne, from Kent, WA, were third overall and first in Group A in their Mazda 323GTX. Other class winners included Goran Ostlund/Steve Baker, Seattle (Group 2); Dave Turner/Bill Gutzmann, Hemet, CA (Production); and Selcuk Karamonoglu/John McArthur, Bath, ME (Production GT). In a PRO Rally, each team consists of a driver and a co-driver (or navigator), and the exact course is kept secret until just before the event. The cars then start at one-minute intervals and race at top speed against the clock over competition stages - in this case the closed forest roads of the Capitol Forest. Speeds of more than 120 miles-per-hour can be reached on long straight-aways, with the team achieving the fastest combined times over the competition stages winning the event. Drivers stay on the existing roads, and never blaze their own trails. SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally events run around the country, in conditions from the blazing Arizona desert in August to the frozen tundra of Maine in December, and pit Audis, Mitsubishis, Porsches, Fords, Toyotas, Subarus and other marques against each other. The 1994 SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series consists of eleven events, and is sponsored by Michelin Tire Corporation, with field administration by the American Rally Association, and series sanction by the Sports Car Club of America. WILD WEST PRO RALLY ROUND #3 - SCCA/MICHELIN PRO RALLY SERIES April 22 - 23, 1994 Final Results - National CAR# CLASS NAT/ DRIVER CO-DRIVER CAR/ DIV TIME 4 Open N Jeff Zwart* Martin Headland Porsche AWD Woody Creek, CO Calgary, ALBERTA 2:21:45 5 Open N Henry Joy Brian Maxwell Mitsubishi Wilmette, IL Port Hope, ONTARIO 2:23:55 21 Gp.A. N/D Greg Lund* Lynne Lund Mazda 323GTX Kent, WA Kent, WA 2:27:07 24 Gp.2 N/D Goran Ostlund* Steve Baker Saab 99 San Salvador Seattle, WA 2:28:31 27 Open N/D Mitch McCullough Scott Webb Mazda 323GTX Laguna Nigel, CA Hermosa Beach, CA 2:31:14 23 Gp.2 N/D Erik Thompson Cam Jackson Volvo 142E Portland, OR Portland, OR 2:32:30 16 GT N Selcuk Karamanoglu* John McArthur Mitsubishi Bath ME Honeoye Falls, NY 2:34:17 28 Gp.2 N/D Sam Bryan Rick Delamare Saab 99 Kent, WA Buckley, WA 2:34:25 36 Gp.A. N Chris Weleff Brian Paul Toyota AWD Riverside, CA Anaheim, CA 2:35:44 22 Gp.A. N/D Rick Davis Ben Greisler BMW M-3 West Chester, PA Philadelphia, PA 2:35:45 25 Gp.A. N Peter Moodie Michael Fennell Mazda 323GTX Kingston, Jamaica Kingston, Jamaica 2:40:57 31 Prod N/D Dave Turner* Bill Gutzmann Mitsubishi Hemet, CA Ontario, CA 2:49:46 26 Gp.2 N Chad Dykes Pat Hanson Mitsubishi Escondido, CA Escondido, CA 3:01:33 For what it's worth, the Vern Johnson/Ben Bradley Toyota Corolla broke again, on SS9 (of 16). :-( -- Ben Bradley There are only two types of rally drivers: bradley@reed.edu Those who HAVE rolled and those who WILL Portland, Oregon Will co-drive for food... ICSCC HP Opel Kadett #444
15.8	Rallye des Cantons	TLE::FISHER	Kill your television	`Wed May 25 1994 22:34`	118
15.9	great result!	OASS::HEARSE::Burden_d	Keep Cool with Coolidge	`Thu May 26 1994 13:24`	14
	>Still, we were given car number 7, my first single-digit entry! >(Hey, these little things are all that hold the dream together sometimes!) But Carl, when you co-drove for me at the 1988 Bryar rallycross we had car #8! Yes, I agree, getting a single digit car number is something to shoot for. It's funny though, I had #6 at the Sabattus winter rally in Maine one year and ended up finishing in 19th spot... But then I had car #15, out of 15, at the Rally Bras d'Or in Sydney, NS and ended up 5th overall and 1st in class! If you see Rick Davis at STPR, let him know I have an Isetta. Gee, I wonder how it would handle the water crossing..... Dave
15.10	1994 STPR	OASS::HEARSE::Burden_d	Keep Cool with Coolidge	`Wed Jun 08 1994 15:32`	264
	Looks like Carl didn't finish - anyone want to give him a call and see what happened? Dave ------- Article 384 of rec.autos.sport.info: Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport,rec.autos.sport.info Subject: PRORALLY: Susquehannock Rally results >From Andy Schupack, Michelin SCCA PRO Rally Series: THE STUDENT SNOOKERS THE MASTER TO STEAL A MICHELIN PRO RALLY WIN AT SUSQUEHANNOCK TRAIL PRO RALLY IN PENNSYLVANIA WELLSBORO, Penn. -- June 5 -- As two-time defending champions in the SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally series, Paul Choiniere, from Shelburne, Vermont, and co-driver Jeff Becker, know a thing or two about rally strategy, but 11-time champion John Buffum, knows a lot more. Yet it was Choiniere - also Buffum's step-son - and Becker who used the rules to their advantage to win the Susquehannock Trail PRO Rally in their Audi Quattro S2. Buffum, from Colchester, Vermont, and Audi Quattro car-owner Bruno Kreibich, were leading the rally at the mid-point, and more importantly, were first on the road for each stage, avoiding the extremely dusty conditions that were plaguing the other competitors. Using a legal, but little used scoring maneuver similar to adding a stroke to a golf scorecard in exchange for moving your ball from a rough, Choiniere and Becker were able to position themselves first on the road for the last five stages of the event - a move which was worth at least 20 seconds a stage. The defending champions went on to a three minute-plus win over Buffum and Kreibich, despite transmission problems on the last stage. By the way, Buffum drove seven stages and Bruno drove five - an action legal under this year's rulebook. Last year, the pair swapped driving and co-driving duties as well at STPR, only to be disqualified from scoring national points. The Carl Merrill/Jon Wickens, from Ogunquit, Maine, in a Ford Escort Cosworth - which lost time early in the event with a loose water hose - was third, with the Henry Joy/Brian Maxwell Mitsubishi Eclipse, from Wilmette, Illinois, fourth. Choiniere takes over the series driver points lead with 58 points, while previous series leader Jeff Zwart, with his Porsche Carrera 4, skipped the event to prepare his car for the July 4 Pike's Peak Hillclimb. Zwart has 51 points. In the other classes, Yvan Joyal and Raymond Cadieux from Montreal won the Group 2 class in a Toyota Corolla; Rick Davis and Ben Greisler, from West Chester, Penn, were winners in Group A in their BMW M-3; Selcuk Karamanoglu and John McArthur, from Bath, Maine, captured Production GT in their Mitsubishi Eclipse; the Tad Ohtake/Bob Martin Ford Escort GT, from Dearborn, Mich., won the Production class; and Greg Healey/John MacLeod, from Hartsville, SC, drove their Dodge Ram 50 to a Rally Truck class win. In all, 31 of the 53 starters completed the high-speed, 124- mile course which has the fastest roads on the SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally circuit. The next event on the SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally circuit will be the Prescott Forest PRO Rally, to be held in Prescott, Arizona, July 8 - 9. SCCA/MICHELIN PRO RALLY SERIES ROUND #5 - SUSQUEHANNOCK TRAIL PRO RALLY WELLSBORO, PENNSYLVANIA JUNE 4 - 5, 1994 FINAL RESULTS Car Driver/ Vehicle/ National Class/ # Co-driver Hometown Tires Time 1 Paul Choiniere Shelburne, VT Audi Open Jeff Becker Great Neck, NY Quattro S2/ 2:15:49 Michelin 12 Bruno Kreibich Queens, NY Audi Quattro/ Open John Buffum S. Burlington, VT Michelin 2:19:05 3 Carl Merrill Ogunquit, ME Ford Escort Open Jon Wickens Bloomfield Hills, MI Cosworth/ 2:22:37 Michelin 5 Henry Joy Wilmette, IL Mitsubishi Open Brian Maxwell Port Hope, ONT Eclipse/ 2:25:03 Michelin 15 Selcuk Karamanoglu Bath, ME Mitsubishi Production GT John McArthur Honeoye Falls, NY Eclipse/ 2:27:28 Michelin 25 Rees Harris S. Burlington, VT Mazda 323GTX/ Production GT Constantine Mantopoulis Floral Park, NY Michelin 2:30:35 44 Yvan Joyal Pepentigny, Quebec Toyota Corolla/ Group 2 Raymond Cadieux St. Lazare, Quebec Nokia 2:33:34 66 Tad Ohtake Dearborn, MI Ford Escort Production Bob Martin Goodrich, MI Michelin 2:34:57 28 Mike Whitman Farmington, NM Datsun 510 Group 2 Jimmy Brandt Odessa, MI Michelin 2:36:30 27 Karl Scheible Spencerport, NY VW GTI Group 2 Wayne Scheible Hamlin, NY Michelin 2:36:32 19 Bob Elliott Rutland, VT VW GTI Production/ Mark Williams Gaithersburg, MD Bridgestone 2:37:32 33 Greg Healey Hartsville, SC Dodge Ram 50 Truck John MacLeod S. Easton, MA BFGoodrich 2:37:55 34 Mike Hurst Pendleton, IN Nissan 200SX Group 2 Rob Bohn Noblesville, IN Bridgestone 2:39:08 32 Dave Turner Hemet, CA Mitsubishi Production Bill Gutzmann Ontario, CA Eclipse 2:39:53 Michelin 24 Rick Swenson Highland Lakes, NJ Mazda 323GTX Production GT Rod Hendrickson Clinton, NJ Michelin 2:40:00 20 Jon Kemp Attica, NY Audi 4000 Open Paul Barrows Rochester, NY Michelin 2:41:07 22 Rick Davis West Chester, PA BMW M-3 Group A Ben Greisler Philadelphia, PA Michelin 2:41:53 38 Dick Casey Fairfax Station, VA VW GTI Group 2 Martin Dapot Reston, VA Colway 2:43:40 46 Dean Fry Mohnton, PA Subaru 4WD Open Don Kennedy Shillington, PA Colway 2:46:29 35 Peter Watt Peterborough, ONT Suzuki Swift Production Roger Sanderson Waterloo, ONT Bridgestone 2:47:14 47 Gerald Sweet Oakridge, NJ Saab 99 Group 2 Stuart Spark Woodcliff Lake, NJ Colway 2:48:08 51 Aleksandr Kishinevski Woodbridge, VA Toyota Celica Group 2 Bradley Hunt Orrtanna, PA Bridgestone 2:49:01 31 Leslie Suddard Wilmington, DE Dodge Omni Group 2 Cindy Krolikowski Wyandota, MI Colway 2:49:23 53 Jon Pizzagalli Winooski, VT VW GTI Group 2 John Springer Burlington, VT Colway 2:49:53 16 Cal Landau Coraopolis, PA Mitsubishi Production GT Eric Marcus Dayton, OH Eclipse/ 2:50:46 Michelin 50 Scott Kriesler Pottstown, PA Saab 99 Group 2 John Bonasera Trappe, PA Michelin 2:51:49 43 Jim Briggs Williston, VT Mazda 323GTX Production GT John Pyke Enosburg, VT Michelin 2:52:38 58 Carl Redner Walled Lake, MI Mazda RX-7 Open Nancy Redner Walled Lake, MI Michelin 2:53:25 49 Joe Gumkowski Buffalo, NY Ford Escort Open Gordon Tracz Amherst, NY Michelin 2:57:44 23 L. Mark Stone Somers, NY Nissan Violet Open Mark Goldfarb Atkinson, NH Michelin 3:06:10 56 Gerry Brinkman Freehold, NJ VW GTI Group 2 Robert Barrall Bethlehem, PA Colway 3:13:28 Did_Not_Finish 9 Doug Shepherd Plymouth, MI Eagle Talon Open Pete Gladysz Troy, MI Michelin DNF 13 Peter Moodie Kingston, Jamaica Mazda 323GTX Group A Michael Fennell Kingston, Jamaica Michelin DNF 98 Vinnie Frontinan Somerville, MA Toyota Group A Frank Arruda Johnston, RI Celica GT4/ DNF Michelin 14 Barry Lattreille Williamstown, ONT Eagle Talon Production GT Sandra Lattreille Williamstown, ONT Michelin DNF 18 Goran Ostlund San Salvador Saab 99 Group 2 Steve Baker Snohomish, WA Michelin DNF 30 Sam Bryan Kent, WA Saab 900 Group 2 Mark Simons Buckley, WA Michelin DNF 17 Tom Ottey Columbus, OH Mazda 323GTX Production GT Pam McGarvey Columbus, OH Michelin DNF 21 Carl Fisher Greenville, NH Dodge Omni Open Ted Mendham Lyndeboro, NH Michelin DNF 59 Sakis Hajiminas Floral Park, NY Audi 4000 Open Tom Burgess Vancouver, BC Quattro/ DNF Michelin 26 Ivan Orisek White Plains, NY Mitsubishi Production GT/ Olga Orisek White Plains, NY Eclipse/ DNF Michelin 29 Bruce Newey Atlanta, GA Mazda RX-7 Group 2 Kennon Rymer Knoxville, TN Michelin DNF 36 Jim Anderson Carrboro, NC Honda Prelude Production Charles Bradley Admore, PA Michelin DNF 37 Roland McIvor Beaver Falls, PA Mitsubishi Production GT Ellen Santarcangelo Beaver Falls, PA Eclipse DNF Michelin 39 Shu Lin Kuo Taiwan Dodge Omni Production Ivan Huang Taiwan Michelin DNF 41 Jonathan Crocker Dearborn, MI Honda CRX Group 2 Greg Brown Dearborn, MI Pirelli DNF 42 Pat Ayer S. Burlington, VT Mazda 323GTX Production GT Diane Houseal Trenton, NJ Michelin DNF 45 Damon Mayers Taunton, MA Toyota Corolla Group 2 Phil Barnes Cortland, NY Colway DNF 48 Wen Jen Lin Taiwan Mitsubishi Production GT Lance Smith Burlington, VT Eclipse DNF Michelin 52 Jerzy Wacker Bridgewater, NJ Audi Quattro Open Peter Bernart Randolph, NJ Michelin DNF 40 Keith Kreisler West Chester, PA Saab 900 Group 2 Chris Erney Reston, VA Michelin DNF 54 Dave Clement Rochester, NY Dodge Omni Open Greg Higham Goodrich, MI Bridgeston DNF 55 Kurt Thiel Rochester, NY VW GTI Group 2 Pete Nichols Rochester, NY Michelin DNF 57 Greg Trepetin N. Potomac, MD Mazda 323GTX Production GT Sonia Ivanovs N. Potomac, MD Bridgestone DNF -- Ben Bradley There are only two types of rally drivers: bradley@reed.edu Those who HAVE rolled and those who WILL Portland, Oregon Will co-drive for food... ICSCC HP Opel Kadett #444
15.11	Climb To The Clouds hillclimb	PROXY::J_EVANS		`Mon Jun 27 1994 19:36`	9
	The winner of the Mt Washington hillclimb is Paul Choiniere, followed by Frank Sprongl, then Carl Merrill. The winning time was 6:58.xx. Frank was clocked in the speed trap at 98mph!!! a new speed trap record. He also was slowed down by a rock that he hit on BOTH runs causing a flat tire to slow him at the end. Paul, in his acceptance speech, thanked the rock for his support... jim
15.12	MAINE FOREST SUMMER RALLY	CRASHR::JILLY	COSROCS -- In Thrust We Trust	`Fri Jul 29 1994 13:38`	103
	Article 610 of rec.autos.sport.info: Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport,rec.autos.sport.info From: bradley@reed.edu (Ben Bradley) Subject: PRORALLY: Maine Forest results Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 18:00:50 GMT Lines: 98 Courtesy of Andy Schupack, Michelin SCCA Pro Rally Series: SCCA/MICHELIN PRO RALLY SERIES ROUND #7 - MAINE FOREST SUMMER RALLY RUMFORD, MAINE JULY 23, 1994 FINAL RESULTS Car Driver/ CLASS/ # Co-driver Hometown Vehicle Time (hrs:min:sec) 1 Paul Choiniere Shelburne, VT Audi Open Jeff Becker Great Neck, NY Quattro S-2 1:15:43 16 Rees Harris S. Burlington, VT Mazda 323GTX Production GT Thierry Menegoz Montreal, Quebec 1:18:25 11 Selcuk Karamanoglu Bath, ME Mitsubishi Production GT John McArthur Honeoye Falls, NY Eclipse 1:18:35 34 Sakis Hajiminas Floral Park, NY Audi 4000 Open Tom Burgess Vancouver, BC Quattro 1:22:40 12 Bob Elliott Rutland, VT VW GTI Production Mark Williams Gaithersburg, MD 1:22:55 28 Lance Smith Burlington, VT Mitsubishi Production GT John Pizzagelli Burlington, VT Eclipse 1:23:28 14 Rick Davis West Chester, PA BMW M-3 Group A Ben Greisler Philadelphia, PA 1:25:26 20 Damon Mayers Taunton, MA Toyota Group 2 Matt Chester Atlanta, GA Corolla 1:27:17 18 Gerald Sweet Oakridge, NJ Saab 99 Group 2 Stuart Spark Woodcliff Lake, NJ 1:29:43 29 Ken Beard Stewartstown, PA Dodge Omni Open Jim Miner Anapolis, MD 1:31:00 23 Jim Anderson Carrboro, NC Honda Prelude Production Charles Bradley Admore, PA 1:31:34 19 Dean Fry Mohnton, PA Subaru 4WD Open Don Kennedy Shillington, PA 1:33:35 26 L. Mark Stone Somers, NY Nissan Violet Open Tim O'Neil Franconia, NH 1:40:18 31 Sylvester Stepniewski Keansburg, NJ VW Scirocco Divisional Adam Pelc Brooklyn, NY 1:41:16 Did_Not_Finish 3 Carl Merrill Ogunquit, ME Ford Escort Open Jon Wickens Bloomfield Hills, MI Cosworth 98 Vinnie Frontinan Somerville, MA Toyota Group A Frank Arruda Johnston, RI Celica GT4 17 Greg Healey Hartsville, SC Dodge Ram 50 Truck John MacLeod S. Easton, MA 13 Donald Taylor Claremont, NH Dodge Omni Open Donna Taylor Barre, VT 15 Rick Swenson Highland Lakes, NJ Mazda 323GTX Production GT Rod Hendrickson Clinton, NJ 27 Jean LeGault St. Augustin, Quebec Subaru Legacy Production GT Pierre Racine Quebec 50 Scott Kriesler Pottstown, PA Saab 99 Group 2 Greg Usavage Perkiomenville, PA 32 Carlos Felipe New Bedford, MA VW GTI Divisional Doug Beaulieu, Jr. Westport, MA 66 Tad Ohtake Dearborn, MI Ford Escort Production Bob Martin Goodrich, MI 35 Ivan Orisek White Plains, NY Audi 4000 Open Olga Orisek White Plains, NY Quattro 24 Pat Ayer S. Burlington, VT Mazda 323GTX Production GT Raymond Cadieux St. Lazare, Quebec -- Ben Bradley There are only two types of rally drivers: bradley@reed.edu Those who HAVE rolled and those who WILL Portland, Oregon Will co-drive for food... ICSCC HP Opel Kadett #444
15.13	Maine Winter rally results	AIMTEC::BURDEN_D	A bear in his natural habitat	`Tue Dec 06 1994 18:19`	156
	Article 1390 of rec.autos.sport.info: Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.info,rec.autos.sport.misc Path: netnews.alf.dec.com!crl.dec.com!crl.dec.com!caen!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd .umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!pipex!uunet!metrics.com!tomh From: bradley@reed.edu (Ben Bradley) Subject: PRORALLY: Maine Forest Winter Rally Results X-Copyright: Copyright 1994 by Motorsport News International and the author X-Original-Date: 5 Dec 1994 19:59:15 GMT X-Issue-No: 1338 Followup-To: rec.autos.sport.misc Approved: tomh@motorsport.com Sender: tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 01:54:41 GMT Message-ID: <D0D9B6.3oE@metrics.com> Lines: 135 Xref: netnews.alf.dec.com rec.autos.sport.info:1390 rec.autos.sport.misc:894 >From Andy Schupack, SCCA Michelin PRO Rally Series: CANADIAN BROTHERS EDGE U.S. RALLY CHAMPION IN FINAL MICHELIN EVENT RUMFORD, Maine -- December 4 -- The final round of the 1994 SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally series through the Boise Cascade and Seven Islands forests here turned out to be the closest of the season as Frank and Dan Sprongl of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada edged Paul Choiniere, from Shelburne, Vermont, and Jeff Becker by only five seconds at the fourth annual Maine Forest Rally. Sprongl, who clinched the Canadian Rally National Championship just last week, had a 40 second lead in his Audi Quattro S-2 after Friday's action, but Choiniere's Hyundai Elantra, making its national debut, caught Spongl on the last stage and looked like it was headed for Paul's fifth win of the year. Unfortunately for Choiniere and Hyundai, the drive shaft broke only a quarter of a mile from the finish, and Sprongl scored his narrow win. Ogunquit, Maine's Carl Merrill, the only local-based entry, was third in his Ford Escort Cosworth. Other class winners included Bob Elliott/John Hart, Rutland, Vermont, in a VW GTI (fourth overall and first in the Production class); Vinnie Frontinan/Frank Arruda, Cambridge, Mass., Toyota All-trac (sixth overall and first in Group A); Cal Landau/Eric Marcus, Coraopolis, Penn., Mitsubishi Eclipse (10th overall and first in Production GT); and Karl Scheible/Wayne Scheible, Spencerport, NY, VW GTI (11th overall and first in Group 2). In the battle for the Group A season championship, the Jamaican team of Peter Moodie and Michael Finnell drove their Mazda 323GTX to a second place class finish to edge the BMW M-3 duo of Rick Davis and Ben Greisler, from West Chester, Penn. Moodie won the title by six points over Davis, who lead most of the season. Other year-end champions included Paul Choiniere (overall national champion - fourth title in five years); Selcuk Karamanoglu, Bath Maine, Mitsubishi Eclipse (Production GT); Dave Turner, Hemet, California, Mitsubishi Eclipse (Production); Goran Ostlund, El Salvador, Saab 99 (Group 2); Jeff Hendricks, Prescott, Arizona, Jeep Comanche (Rally Truck). MAINE FOREST RALLY '94 - ROUND #11 OF THE SCCA/MICHELIN PRO RALLY SERIES December 2-3, 1994 Rumford, Maine - Entry List Final Results Start Car Driver/ Hometowns Vehicle/Class Pos # Co-Driver Division/Time 1 11 Frank Sprongl Ontario Audi Quattro/Open Dan Sprongl Ontario National/2:16:57 2 1 Paul Choiniere Shelburne, VT Hyundai Elantra/Open Jeff Becker Great Neck, NY National/2:17:02 3 3 Carl Merrill Ogunquit, ME Ford Cosworth John Bellefleur Toronto, ONT National/2:23:30 4 18 Bob Elliott Rutland, VT VW GTI/Prod John Hart Hydeville, VT National/2:25:47 5 14 Bruno Kreibich Ridgewood, NY Audi Quattro/Open Rod Hendricksen Clinton, NJ National/2:26:59 6 98 Vicente Frontinan Cambridge, MA Toyota Celica GT4/Gp A Francisco Arruda Johnston, RI National/2:29:15 7 12 Peter Moodie Jamaica Mazda 323/Group A Mike Fennell Jamaica National/2:30:48 8 5 Henry Joy Atlanta, MI Mitsubishi Eclipse/Open Brian Maxwell Port Hope, ONT National/2:32:12 9 99 Frank Cunningham Boston, MA Toyota Celica GT4/Gp A Ray Cunningham Galway, Ireland National/2:35:06 10 16 Cal Landau Coraopolis, PA Mitsubishi Eclipse/GT Eric Marcus Dayton, OH National/2:37:15 11 22 Karl Scheible Spencerport, NY VW GTI/Gp 2 Wayne Scheible Hamlin, NY National/2:37:25 12 30 Damon Mayers Taunton, MA Toyota Corolla/Gp 2 Matt Chester Atlanta, GA National/2:39:20 13 31 Jim Briggs Shelburne, VT Mazda 323/GT Chris Poulin Williston, VT National/2:46:15 14 33 John Pezzi Minoa, NY VW Golf/Gp 2 Gary Jones Balston Spa, NY National/2:47:44 15 20 Jon Kemp Attica, NY Audi 4000Q/Open Paul Barrows Rochester, NY National/2:49:48 16 23 Mike Hurst Pendleton, IN Nissan 200SX/Gp 2 Rob Bohn Noblesville, IN National/2:50:47 17 32 Dean Fry Mohnton, PA Subaru 4WD/Open Don Kennedy Shillington, PA National/2:53:49 18 28 Jim Anderson Carrboro, NC Honda Prelude/Prod Jim Hurley Knoxville, TN National/2:56:44 19 24 Dick Casey Fairfax, VA VW GTI/Gp 2 Martin Dapot Reston, VA National/2:57:29 20 21 Rick Davis West Chester, PA BMW M-3/Gp A Ben Greisler Philadelphia, PA National/2:59:11 21 27 Leslie Suddard Wilmington, DE Dodge Charger/Open Anne Thomas Nashua, NH National/3:02:48 DNF 34 Pat Ayer S. Burlington, VT Audi Quattro/Open Ray Cadieux St. Lazarus, QUE National/DNF DNF 35 Greg Trepetin North Potomac, MD Mazda 323/GT Sonia Trepetin North Potomac, MD National/DNF DNF 15 Rees Harris S. Burlington, VT Mazda 323/Prod. GT C. Mantopoulas Staten Island, NY National/DNF DNF 17 Sam Bryan Kent, WA Saab 900/Group 2 Rob Walden Seattle, WA National/DNF -- Ben Bradley -There are only two types of rally drivers: bradley@reed.edu Those who HAVE rolled and those who WILL Portland, Oregon, USA -Will co-drive for food... 89 323 GTX, 85 Omni GLHt -ICSCC HP Opel Kadett #444
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	Article 1403 of rec.autos.sport.info: Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.info Path: netnews.alf.dec.com!pa.dec.com!crl.dec.com!crl.dec.com!caen!zip.eecs.umich.edu!n ewsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.mindlink.net!metr ics.com!tomh From: John Bellefleur <arpxjjb@dowsv01.dow.on.doe.CA> Subject: CASC-PRORALLY: Tall Pines Rally results X-Copyright: Copyright 1994 by Motorsport News International and the author X-Original-Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 11:54:05 -0500 (EST) X-Issue-No: 1350 Followup-To: rec.autos.sport.misc Approved: tomh@motorsport.com Sender: tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) Organization: MNI - Motorsport News International Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 17:18:26 GMT Message-ID: <D0GAqq.KL6@metrics.com> Lines: 52 CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF RALLYSPORT 595 ELM RD. STOUFFVILLE, ONTARIO L4A 1W9 1994 MICHELIN RALLY OF THE TALL PINES - Nov. 25-27 National Results Rank Time Vehicle Class Driver/Co-driver 1 2:19:26 Audi Quattro Open Frank Sprongl - Ontario Dan Sprongl - Ontario 2 2:19:54 Subaru Legacy GT Tom McGeer - Ontario Trish Sparrow - Ontario 3 2:23:03 Ford Escort RS Open Carl Merrill - Maine John Bellefleur - Ontario 4 2:28:19 Mazda 323 4wd GT Sylvain Vincent - Quebec Dominique Cyr - Quebec 5 2:41:27 Toyota Corolla GTS Open Keith Townsend - Ontario Roger Sanderson - Ontario 6 2:44:08 Nissan 2OOSX Open Louis Cabardos - Ontario Greg Calnan - Ontario 7 2:47:05 VW Golf GTI Open Peter Reilly - Ontario Alison Gover - Ontario 8 2:49:53 Lada Samara 1750 Ari Montonen - Ontario Gord Blanusa - Ontario 9 2:50:28 Toyota Corolla GTS Sport Damon Mayers - Massachusetts Matt Cllester - Georgia 10 2:52:31 Eagle Talon Open Jacques Besner - Quebec Luc Piche - Quebec 11 2:55:37 Suzuki Swift GT 1750 Paul Henshall - Ontario Barry Berg - Minnesota 12 2:56:34 Volvo 242 Open Dave Marzetti - Ontario Martin Loveridge - Ontario 13 3:02:21 Hyundai Excel 1750 Scott Comens - Ontario Todd Gillies - Ontario 14 3:02:47 VW Golf GTI Open Carlos Oliveria - Ontario Rui Penha - Ontario 15 3:12:37 VW Scirocco Open Phillip Assad - Ontario Ray Felice - Ontario 16 3:22:57 Toyota Celica Open Charles Cooper - Ontario Doug Cooper - Ontario 17 3:28:37 Honda Civic 1750 Doug Mepham - Ontario Martyn Appleford - Ontario Affiliated to ASN CANADA FIA arpxjjb@dowsv01.osd.aes.doe.ca